Wednesday, March 15 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Downtown UCLA Labor Center
675 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90057
Downtown UCLA Labor Center
675 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90057
$3 admissions, but no one will be turn away for lack of funds
Fund Raiser to Support Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes’ Latino
March For Peace
Iraqi Woman Faiza Al-Araji Speak Out No to War!
Global Exchange, Code Pink Co-Founder Medea Benjamin
Community Mobilization to Support L.A. City Anti-War Resolution
Community Mobilization to Support L.A. City Anti-War Resolution
Host by: Sonali Kolhatkar, host and producer of "Uprising,"
Pacifica Radio, and Co-Director of Afghan Women's Mission
Sponsored by: ActionLA Coalition, Peace No War Network, Coalition for World Peace in support to United for Peace & Justice
End the War on Iraq
Bring All the Troops Home Now!
Three Years Too Many! At the wake of the Third Anniversary of the Iraq War, this is a community event to highlight the local costs of the war and how we can involve for the up-coming local peace and justice movements.
The Initial Programs:
6:00 -- 7:00 PM tabling and welcoming
7:00 -- 8:15 PM speakers and entertainment
8:30 PM – 9:00 PM community dialogue with speakers
1) Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes will made a stop
on their coalition of the willing, a 241 mile quest for peace
starting in Tijuana, Mexico, going through Marine Corps Depot Camp
Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, and
culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial
ceremony and blood drive. (web site: http://www.guerreroazteca.org
and http://swiftsmartveterans.com/index.html)
2) Faiza Al-Araji: is a Iraqi civil engineer, a blogger(http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com),
a religious Shia with a Sunni husband, and a mother of three. After
one son was recently held as a political prisoner by the Ministry of
the Interior, the family fled to Jordan.
3) Medea Benjamin: Co-Founder Global Exchange, Code Pink.
4) Josh Kamensky, Eric Garcetti's Communication's Director: he
will address the issue of the city budget and funding of social
programs vis-a-vis the enormous war spending by the federal
government
5) Lee Siu Hin, National Immigrant Solidarity Network: He will
focus on the impact of immigrant community at the war in Iraq.
6) Andy Griggs, LA US Labor Against the War: he'll focus on labor movement against the war.
Music: Underground Economy
$3 admissions, but no one will be turn away for lack of funds
For more information, please call: Lee Siu Hin
Tel: (213)403-0131
e-mail: